David Jensen

He was only 23 when he died last week for our freedom. Whether you’re Ukrainian, Polish, English, American, or Chinese, he died for all of us that we might remain free.

@Mylovanov I was told the same in St. Petersburg, Putin’s beloved city. Kasparov is right. Putin won’t cave until all his power brokers have been knee-capped. «Без свободы истины не существует». -Александр Пушкин

Kasparov: Russians are not angry because Russia committed a crime against Ukraine. They are angry because Putin cannot win. They do not criticize him for killing Ukrainians — they criticize him for killing too few and too slowly. 1/

@DenShtilierman Truth on every point. Слава Україні!

A very insightful article in the Washington Post — “Ukraine has made itself indispensable to the West.” What is particularly important is that it was written by Oleksii Reznikov, Ukraine’s former Minister of Defense, and Dalibor Roháč, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. The article’s main argument is that Ukraine has gone from being a “beggar” to an indispensable asset for Western security. “Four years into the full-scale war, the world’s most capable militaries are coming to Ukraine to buy weapons. Ukraine and the Pentagon are moving to finalize a deal that would send Ukrainian-made drones to the United States for testing on American soil.” “Until recently, Kyiv was seen as the supplicant in Western capitals. Today, Ukraine is more sovereign, more capable and more independent than at any point since it declared statehood in 1991. It has made itself both unconquerable by Moscow and indispensable to Washington, Berlin and others.” “It has made itself both unconquerable by Moscow and indispensable to Washington.” This is exactly how our negotiating position should sound in all international forums. Ukraine has buried the principle upon which military science has been built for centuries. This is a fact based on figures: “Russia’s military budget has grown several times since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, reaching 10 percent of gross domestic product in 2025, or half of Russia’s public expenditure. And it will likely expand further as Russia’s public finances receive a boost from high oil prices. The size of its active-duty personnel has also increased, from around 1 million to 1.5 million.” “Since the beginning of this year, Russia has been losing around 35,000 troops per month, outpacing its declining capacity for recruitment.” In other words, Russia is pouring half its national budget into the war, expanding its army to 1.5 million — and is still losing territory. This is the very death of the old military doctrine. “Ukraine’s regular armed forces numbered around 260,000 in 2022, at the start of the full-scale invasion. Today, approximately 1 million Ukrainians are at arms. But the 750,000-plus civilians who put on the uniform aren’t conscripts in a Russian sense. They are engineers, coders and entrepreneurs running drone workshops out of garages and writing targeting software between artillery shifts.” This is a fundamental difference from Russia. They have a mobilized resource — cannon fodder bought with money and debt forgiveness. We have a nation that has turned its own creativity into a weapon. And that is precisely why we are winning the technological race. The authors cite the very same mathematics of war that I constantly talk about: “A $500 first-person-view drone can destroy a multimillion-dollar Russian tank. A $1,000 3D-printed interceptor can knock down a $35,000 Shahed. Whoever can manufacture cheaper, faster and at scale wins. Currently, Ukraine is winning that race.” The text also notes the failure of American weapons in modern warfare — the “expensive Patriots versus cheap drones” model failed in its very first real-world test. But the Ukrainian model works. “Ukraine is no longer merely a recipient of Western aid but a co-creator of Western defense capability. So the West needs to ask itself whether it’s better off with a sovereign, technologically advanced Ukraine, or with a defeated and occupied one. Investing in Ukraine is an investment in European security. It turns out that Ukraine is not the West’s problem. It is, in fact, a solution.” This article was written for an American audience by a former Ukrainian defense minister in collaboration with an American analyst. This is the correct model for conveying our narrative. Not complaints, not pleas, but cold calculation: Ukraine is beneficial to the West. Ukraine is a solution, not a problem. The thesis of being a “co-creator of Western defense capabilities” must become the foundation of our entire foreign policy. We are not asking for help. We are offering a partnership in which the West gains access to the world’s only army with real experience in modern warfare and to the fastest defense R&D on the planet. Ukraine has become indispensable. Now our task is to cement this status forever.

Imagine if Biden: • Created a $1.8 billion slush fund to hand out to rioters who assaulted police officers • Banned the IRS from auditing him, his family, and his companies • Accepted a $400 million luxury jet from a foreign monarchy Pardoned hundreds of people who assaulted police officers • Openly promoted his own meme coin while in office • Had family members cutting international business deals while he was in office and directly profiting from them • Repeatedly “joked” about staying in office past two terms • Repeatedly praised Xi, Putin, and Kim Jong Un The outrage would never end. The fact that people are becoming numb to this level of corruption is insane.

@Tsihanouskaya Thank you. 🙏 Glory to the heroes!

A Belarusian volunteer, former political prisoner Tsikhan Kliukach, was killed fighting for Ukraine. He was only 23. After his release from Lukashenka’s prison, Tsikhan chose to defend Ukraine’s freedom against Russian aggression. We will always remember him as a hero.

@MilesTaylorUSA Make sure this is displayed on a laptop for people to browse. nytimes.com/2026/05/17/us/…

If Trump think his “revenge” against Rep. Massie will make the Epstein files go away…. ….he’s wrong. We’re taking the files across the country this summer. bit.ly/4a2qV86

@Gerashchenko_en 🙏

Russia attacked Ukraine with drones last night, killing and injuring civilians. Day by day, Russia brings more and more grief and destruction to Ukraine. ▪️Dnipro: two people killed, five more injured. Warehouses with food damaged. ▪️Konotop, Sumy region: three floors of a residential building collapsed when a drone hit them. Three people injured as of now, the search and rescue operation continues. ▪️Zaporizhzhia region: a private home hit, four people injured, including two kids. ▪️Odesa: a one-story building destroyed, a residential building hit, an infrastructure object damaged.

@MykhailoRohoza @OlenaRohoza I believe @Pontifex would agree with you, based on his homilies and interviews. Слава Україні!

“A WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING” Franklin Graham traveled to Minsk, shook hands with Alexander Lukashenko, then stood before thousands at an evangelical festival and asked people to pray for Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin as “leaders.” Pray for Lukashenko — a dictator who spent decades crushing his own people, imprisoning opponents, and turning Belarus into a satellite of the Kremlin. Pray for Putin — a war criminal responsible for mass killings, torture, the abduction of Ukrainian children, and the largest war in Europe since World War II. This is the kind of prayer that God calls an abomination. The Bible contains many passages where God makes it clear that not every prayer is acceptable to Him. “If anyone turns a deaf ear to my instruction, even their prayers are detestable.” — Proverbs 28:9 “Whoever shuts their ears to the cry of the poor will also cry out and not be answered.” — Proverbs 21:13 When millions suffer, when children are abducted, when cities are reduced to ruins, when innocent people are tortured and murdered, asking Christians to pray for dictators without mentioning their crimes is not an act of faith. IT IS AN ACT OF MORAL BLINDNESS. A true Christian prayer today would be a prayer for the liberation of prisoners, the return of kidnapped children, the protection of the innocent, and victory over evil. When a prominent Christian leader asks believers to pray for tyrants while saying nothing about their victims, bombed cities, tortured prisoners, or murdered children, that is not moral leadership. IT IS MORAL BANKRUPTCY. Ukrainian Christians are not praying for the comfort of executioners. They are praying for truth to prevail, for justice to triumph, and for evil to be defeated. God is a God of mercy. But He is also a God of justice.

Stubb: Russia failed on every front — Ukraine became European, NATO gained Finland and Sweden. In WWII the Soviets marched 1,600km in four years. Russia has moved 60km in four years now. They won't test Article 5 — they'll hit us below it. That's already happening. 1/

@McFaul Emperor Trump has no idea he forgot to put on his clothes!

Xi was not talking about the United States from two years ago. I don’t understand who is the target audience for this kind of absurd spin.

@SteveRattner @carlquintanilla Another reason to put him in jail as soon as he leaves office.

This is extraordinary. I've been a professional investor for decades and I haven't made this many trades in my career. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@ZenHankering @McFaul That’s been the problem his entire life.

@McFaul Jeebus. Once again America looks like a rube with money, aka a sucker. Xi schools him every single time. Meathead posted about it so somebody explained "Thucydides Trap" to him. But he deflected onto Biden. What an embarrassment. So weak. Trump's easy.

Trump pays tribute to Tsinghua University’s American roots while kneecapping top research universities at home. What hypocrisy. scmp.com/news/china/dip…

@yasminalombaert This is brilliant!

President Zelenskyy has realised that in 2026, the path to victory doesn't lead through the White House. It leads through a bipartisan majority in Congress that is tired of watching from the sidelines. While the world’s cameras are locked on Beijing today, watching Trump swap handshakes and "grand bargains" with Xi Jinping, a much quieter and arguably more important meeting took place in Kyiv. President Zelenskyy sat down with a heavy-hitting delegation from the Hudson Institute. If you’re not a policy wonk, here’s why that matters: Hudson is a powerhouse of traditional conservative thought. By inviting them in, Zelenskyy wasn't just talking shop. He was executing a massive strategic shift. The message? "If the White House is busy, we'll talk to the people who actually hold the checkbook in the U.S.”. For months, the Trump administration has kept Ukraine on "pause”, pushing for a kind of surrender that most Americans aren't buying. As Trump attempts a massive geopolitical reset with China—the same China that is currently keeping putin’s war machine on life support, President Zelenskyy has clearly decided he’s done waiting for a return call from the Oval Office. Instead, he’s going straight to the U.S. Congress and the intellectual backbone of the Republican party. Zelenskyy’s gamble paid off. Just as he was wrapping up his meeting with the Hudson folks, news broke in D.C. that a bipartisan group of lawmakers finally hit the magic 218 signatures on a discharge petition. For those who skipped civics class: this is basically a "legislative mutiny”. It allows a majority of Congress to snatch a bill (in this case, the Ukraine Support Act) right out of the hands of House leadership and force it onto the floor for a vote. 1. The Ammo Famine is Ending: This bill unblocks the heavy hitters, air defense interceptors, drones, and the long-range missiles (ATACMS) that have been gathering dust while the front lines suffered. The majority of Americans still want to see Ukraine win. By forcing this vote, Congress is effectively saying that the administration’s "America First" retreat doesn't actually represent America. Zelenskyy isn't just asking for help anymore; he's building a coalition that can outlast any single administration. While the headlines focus on the red carpets in Beijing, the real power move happened in a meeting room in Kyiv and a signing desk in Washington. Zelenskyy has realised that in 2026, the path to victory doesn't lead through the White House—it leads through a bipartisan majority in Congress that is tired of watching from the sidelines. As Zelenskyy puts it now: “We are thankful to the American PEOPLE”. It looks like Congress just hit the play button.

@sentdefender This is the opposite of Jiang Zemin’s visit to Seattle in the 1990s when I worked for Boeing. Jiang met with then-chairman Frank Shrontz, but his big delight was visiting the home of a 737 factory worker—without the press. (Tricky!) Imagine Trump and his billionaires doing that.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump confirming that Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, is accompanying him on Air Force One, along with a number of other industry and tech CEOs, to Beijing, China for his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

@rushdossa @SaintLaurant @Scaramucci What a horrible thought.

@SaintLaurant @Scaramucci Trump doesn’t need to pardon himself. He can resign a few days before and Vance can pardon himself

Trump is not Xi, he's not Putin, he's not Stalin. He doesn't have the patience, the energy, or the organizational discipline to build a true infrastructure of authoritarianism. And he's up against a system that's worked for 250 years and isn't going down without a fight. So here's my prediction: by the end of 2028 he becomes largely irrelevant. -He'll make billions of $$$. -He'll pardon himself. -He'll pardon the family, pardon everyone in his orbit who's been doing the insider trading, the meme coins, the crypto nonsense, the corruption. The one scenario that changes everything is if he dies in office. God forbid — I'm not wishing that on anyone. But if Vance takes over and eventually gets ousted, the family is in serious trouble. You can't hide multi-billion dollar corruption without a sitting president to issue the pardons. That's the whole architecture of the exit strategy and I think he's thought about it more carefully than people realize.

@JuliaDavisNews Julia, do you know the ID of the younger man standing next to Lukashenko?

Meanwhile in Russia: Vladimir Putin's no-thrills, no-frills Victory Day parade. youtu.be/pKvG8LUSZOM

@VolodyaTretyak @Vipress78 Not illegal (that would invite other problems) but carefully contained.

Vienna, Austria. 09.05.2026... Honestly, I think these symbols should be illegal in the EU countries... Do you agree? 🤔

@WarintheFuture Drone production sites in Iran (and Russia) should be blown to smithereens. CIA, NSC, NOAA: you got the locations, right?

“Despite a high-profile humanitarian ceasefire brokered for May 9–11, the Ukrainian General Staff reported 147 combat engagements on the truce’s opening day. Russian forces reportedly launched over 7,000 kamikaze drones & conducted 2,000 shelling attacks.” kyivpost.com/post/75825

@danielsgoldman Well said!

Happy Mother’s Day to all of the wonderful moms who keep our campaign going! This is a truly grassroots effort — we couldn’t do this without you. Together, we’ll keep fighting for a future that all our children can be proud of.

Another reason to abolish the Electoral College system that preserves minority (i.e., MAGA) rule. @RepKevinMullin @SenAdamSchiff apnews.com/article/redist…